🇱🇸 Country
Lesotho
Lesotho is home to 8 languages, spoken across Southern Africa. Explore them on the map or in the full list below.
Capital
Maseru
Nationality
Mosotho(singular)/Basotho(plural)
Currency
Lesotho Loti (LSL)
Languages
8
Independence
Oct 4, 1966
6 active
1 endangered
1 extinct
Where the languages are spoken
Each bubble marks where a language is centred in Lesotho; its size reflects how many people speak it there. Click a bubble for the source.
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All languages in Lesotho
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